You Know You Want Something Steamy to Binge-Watch in October! 15 Sexy Shows on Netflix

The Fosters is a show about an interracial lesbian couple raising multiethnic biological and foster children together. Its depictions of sexuality are honest, tender, and often complicated as it explores the different dynamics of family life and adolescence.

This lurid drama series portrays the seedy entanglements of corrupt politicians, the mafia, and the Vatican in modern-day Italy. If you're looking for a new sexy and dangerous crime show, check out Suburra.

You might know Jonathan Groff as Kristoff from Frozen, but if you're looking for some saccharine and innocent Disney magic, you're looking at the wrong show. Directed by House of Cards producer David Fincher, the dark and gritty series Mindhunter transports viewers into the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. In a teaser, Groff's partner warns him that a particularly dangerous criminal will "have sex with his face." If anything, this gives us a feel for the edgy and less-than-safe-for-work tone of the series.

Based on Stephen King's novella, this sci-fi series brings viewers into the world of a little village in Maine that becomes engulfed by a mysterious mist. The monstrous fog isn't the only thing that's steamy in The Mist, which doles out some fairly racy scenes on top of its horror.

The gritty, lurid telenovela La Querida Del Centauro tells the story of an intelligent and sexy inmate who is promised house arrest in exchange for luring the famous drug trafficker El Centauro.

David Lynch's cult classic Twin Peaks is equal parts teen soap, psychological thriller, and abstract artsy goodness. The show balances spookiness and sultriness with a delicate blend of crime and scandalous affairs.

If you're lusting for supernatural chemistry, you don't need to look any further than this sexy spinoff of The Vampire Diaries. The Originals features plenty of titillating romantic drama between wolves, vampires, and witches that will get your heart racing.

If you're into period dramas and have an intense prurient curiosity, you'll enjoy The Tudors, in which we see King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn freely express their lustful desires for each other.

The Defenders doesn't veer away from the birds and the bees. Luke Cage and Claire Temple go on a date that entails much more than just an innocent cup of coffee in this Marvel mashup series.

As they juggle legal battles and murder mysteries with their fierce law professor, the students in How to Get Away With Murder also get entangled in flings and romantic dramas. In every other episode or so, we get to see handsome actors like Jack Falahee and Billy Brown flaunt their ripped abs.

This new teen soap takes a sexy and dark spin on the original Archie comics. In Riverdale, you'll encounter murder, mystery, illicit affairs, and everything in between.

The crime series Narcos depicts the misadventures of the Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. It's not all crime, though, as we see Escobar share steamy moments with his wife, Tata, and his mistress Valeria.

Naomi Watts stars as a therapist who dangerously crosses personal and professional boundaries in the sultry psychological thriller series Gypsy.

Kerry Washington portrays the fierce and confident media consultant Olivia Pope in Scandal. When she's not fixing American politics with her team of Gladiators, Olivia Pope finds herself choosing between the smoldering Captain Jake Ballard and the handsome President Fitzgerald Grant.

In The Vampire Diaries, two vampire brothers, one a bad boy and the other good, try to win the affection of a mortal teenage girl played by Nina Dobrev.